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... doubt you've had plenty in your time in yon dreadful West Indies where you were so long . " " What's dreadful about them ? " said Drumcarro . " It's ignorance that makes ye say so . Ye would think ye were in paradise if ye were there ...
... doubt you've had plenty in your time in yon dreadful West Indies where you were so long . " " What's dreadful about them ? " said Drumcarro . " It's ignorance that makes ye say so . Ye would think ye were in paradise if ye were there ...
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... doubt seen the world and kings ' courts and many fine places should dis- tinguish her so - while on the other hand the thought was dreadful that , in all her bloom of youth , Kirsteen should be destined to a man old enough to be her ...
... doubt seen the world and kings ' courts and many fine places should dis- tinguish her so - while on the other hand the thought was dreadful that , in all her bloom of youth , Kirsteen should be destined to a man old enough to be her ...
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... doubt . " " But that's very different for then a parent is free of responsibility , " said the mother , rising to the occa- sion ; " that is just the course of nature . And if they are so happy as to chance upon good , serious , God ...
... doubt . " " But that's very different for then a parent is free of responsibility , " said the mother , rising to the occa- sion ; " that is just the course of nature . And if they are so happy as to chance upon good , serious , God ...
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... doubt everything that heart can desire ; for an auld man is far more silly than a young one . " Kirsteen gave the wool a jerk which tangled it wildly . " Mother , I just wonder what you are all havering about , " she said . " Kirsteen ...
... doubt everything that heart can desire ; for an auld man is far more silly than a young one . " Kirsteen gave the wool a jerk which tangled it wildly . " Mother , I just wonder what you are all havering about , " she said . " Kirsteen ...
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... doubt at all that he could write ballads . " The Witch of Fife " is long and is not improved by being written ( at least in one version ) in a kind of Scots that never was on land or sea , " " but it is quite admirable of its class ...
... doubt at all that he could write ballads . " The Witch of Fife " is long and is not improved by being written ( at least in one version ) in a kind of Scots that never was on land or sea , " " but it is quite admirable of its class ...
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Page 449 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 108 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 182 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Page 89 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 126 - Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun, And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one. And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. "Ha
Page 126 - If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay. They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair, — thy brethren wait to sup.
Page 126 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho...
Page 203 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
Page 126 - who leads a troop of the Guides, 'And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides. 'Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed, 'Thy life is his — thy fate it is to guard him with thy head. 'So, thou must eat the White Queen's meat, and all her foes are thine, 'And thou must harry thy father's hold for the peace of the Border-line. 'And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power — 'Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
Page 183 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...